Objective To explore the discrepancy of anxiety and depression between breast cancer patients and general population,to provide reference for psychological ethical intervention.Methods Breast cancer patients and general population admitted randomly from October.2008 to April.2009 were assessed according to Self-reporting inventory,Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS)and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS).Patients with breast cancer were come into the study group(n=100) and general population come into the control group(n=100),and then psychological ethical intervention was provided to each group.Results The Morbidity of anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients is much higher than that in the general population(P